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Increase Transparency and Accountability
In most countries surveyed more people believed in the effectiveness of journalists than in national anti-bribery laws. Journalism and its possible effect of naming and shaming is seen as a very effective deterrent to corruption.
WORKING WITH THE MEDIA
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Corruption doesn’t respect borders
• In a world where people, money, and businesses can quickly and freely move across borders it means that crime and corruption are also going global.
• Investigating international corruption cases, following illicit flows of money across borders or just swathing through huge amounts of data files takes cooperation, technological expertise and many other skill sets.
• Investigations now need collaboration and the ability to use new technology to make sense of all the available data.
• There’s been Swissleaks, Luxleaks, NSA leaks and Yanukovychleaks. There are stories about shell companies buying up New York, Petrobras bribery investigations and politicians laundering their money.
TRANSBOUNDARY MOVEMENT
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The rumours about the demise of investigative journalism have been greatly exaggerated.
Only a few short years ago many people were sounding the death knell. News was moving from print to digital, ad sales were down, the financial crisis was taking its toll and newsrooms were closing or shrinking across the globe. With money so tight it was hard to justify these in-depth, time consuming, resource draining investigations.
FUTURE OF JOURNALISM
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• One of the transformations has been in the way that investigative
journalists work. While in the past they may have been solitary
creatures, (lone wolves) reluctant to share their information and
sources - a cultural change towards collaborative journalism is
happening. Journalists are now sharing their methods and skills
and are working together to break stories.
EUROPEAN CORRUPTION OBSERVATORY
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• Alongside this, access to information is also increasing
and data journalism is on the rise. Data analysis and data
visualization are helping investigative journalists transform
enormous amounts of information into easily accessible
and compelling stories.
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• Crime and corruption are also going global.
• The documents obtained by ICIJ via the French newspaper Le
Monde are already the basis of tax investigations in multiple
countries after originally being shared by French tax authorities.
The leaked files provide details on the names, professions and
value of assets of over 100,000 HSBC clients, who included
royalty, politicians, public figures, celebrities and business
leaders in more than 200 countries.
SWISS LEAKS
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• International Consortium of Investigative Journalists worked with
more than 140 reporters in 45 countries
• 60,000 leaked files, some of which provide explicit details of how the
bank was aware of wrongdoing by some clients. The total value held
in the bank accounts exceeds $100 billion
• ICIJ and its media partners used traditional reporting methods as
well as data analysis and online tools designed especially for this
project.
SWISS LEAKS
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• Journalism Fund EU• European Journalism Centre• ICIJ• IRE• Baltic centre for investigative journalism• GIJN• OCCRP• SCOOP• Bureau of Investigative Journalism• Centre for Investigative Journalism• Hacks/Hackers
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
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• Provide an evidence base for EU policy making
• Facilitate analysis and identification of corruption
trends
• Increase transnational knowledge of corruption
• Create a taxonomy of corruption stories
• Provide a platform for exchange and networking
• Promote Pan European collaboration
What's Missing?
A media monitoring tool on corruption
Not just about investigative journalism
EUROPEAN CORRUPTION OBSERVATORY
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RSS FEEDS
• Initially wanted the top 5
media sites in each member
state – plus wires,
international press etc
• Minimum of 140 RSS feeds
• Currently tracking 88
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SEARCH TERMS (IN ALL EU LANGUAGES)
1. Asset Recovery
2. Bribery
3. Clientelism
4. Collusion
5. Corruption
6. Debarment
7. Price fixing
8. Conflict of interest
9. Cronyism
10. Embezzlement
11. Extortion
12. Facilitation payment
13. Fraud
14. False accounting
15. Graft
16. Illegal lobbying
17. Illicit political contribution
18. Kickback
19. Insider Trading
20. Misuse of Public Position
21. Money Laundering
22. Nepotism
23. Peddling influence
24. Policy Capture
25. Revolving Door
26. Solicitation
27. State capture
28. Tax evasion
29. Trafficking influence
30. Vote-buying
31. Whistleblower
32. Whistle-blower
33. Whistleblowing
34. Whistle-blowing
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CORRUPTION ISSUE
1. Blackmail
2. Bribery
3. Clientelism/ Patronage
4. Collusion/ Cartel /Price Fixing
5. Conflict of Interest
6. Cronyism
7. Data Theft
8. Embezzlement
9. Facilitating Tax Evasion
10. Facilitation Payment
11. Favouritism
12. Fraud/ False Accounting
13. Gift Giving
14. Illegal Lobbying
15. Illicit Political Contribution
16. Inefficiency/ Red Tape
17. Kickback
18. Lack of Transparency
19. Mismanagement of Public Funds
20. Misuse of Insider information
21. Misuse of Public Position
22. Money Laundering
23. Nepotism
24. Revolving Door
25. Sexual Favours
26. Theft
27. Trafficking of Influence
28. Vote-buying
29. Welfare Fraud
30. Whistleblower Retaliation
31. Withholding of Public Information
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SECTORS
1. Agriculture and Farming
2. Banking and Finance
3. Civil Society
4. Construction
5. Customs and Immigration
6. Defence and Security
1. Military
7. Education
8. Executive/Government
9. Health
1. Healthcare
2. Medical services
3. Pharmaceutical
10. Independent Oversight Institutions
1. Anti-Corruption Agencies
2. Audit Institutions
3. Electoral Management Body
4. Ombudsman
11. Judiciary
12. Labour and Employment
13. Land and Property
1. Land Services
2. Real Estate
3. Registry and Permit Services
14. Legislative / Parliament
15. Manufacturing
16. Media
17. Natural Resources
1. Fisheries
2. Forestry
3. Mining
4. Oil and Gas
5. Water
18. Police
19. Political Parties
20. Power Generation and Transmission
21. Private Sector
22. Public Administration
23. Religion
24. Tax Authority
25. Technology
26. Transport
27. Utilities
1. Electricity
2. Gas
3. Telecommunications
4. Waste disposal
5. Water and Sanitation
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ECO MATCH
Civil Society Campaigners
Investigative Journalists
Hackers
Policy Officials
Law enforcement agencies
Corruption Experts
Researchers
Access to information experts
ECO
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http://gamechangers.16iacc.org/about/
http://community.ejc.net/
http://emm.newsexplorer.eu/NewsExplorer/home/en/latest.html
http://emm.newsbrief.eu/NewsBrief/clusteredition/en/latest.html
http://eco.eurobrain.com/user
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CURRENT CHALLENGES
• RSS Feeds that don’t work
• Too many search returns (over 5,800 articles sitting in queues)
• Automatic Translation does not work well
• Slow manual process – read the article, write a summary, tag the article
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DEVELOPMENT PHASE 2
• Better RSS searching for improved results
• Grouping articles to create cases
• Reducing manual input / creating a sustainable database
• Analysing the data produced and creating visualisations
• Scaling up ECO Match to a working pilot network